Journal
STEM CELL REVIEWS AND REPORTS
Volume 19, Issue 1, Pages 2-25Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s12015-022-10448-3
Keywords
Lipid rafts; Receptors; Embryonic development; Lineage specificity; Implantation; Cell signalling; Gene expression
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Over the past fifty years, there have been changing views on the organization and dynamics of the plasma membrane at the molecular level. Lipid rafts, nanoscale subdomains enriched with cholesterol and sphingolipids, play a unique role among other subdomains by dynamically harboring signaling proteins and orchestrating multiple signaling pathways. They are involved in cellular physiology, homeostasis, embryonic development, stem cell maintenance, and cancer biology.
Molecular views of plasma membrane organization and dynamics are gradually changing over the past fifty years. Dynamics of plasma membrane instigate several signaling nexuses in eukaryotic cells. The striking feature of plasma membrane dynamics is that, it is internally transfigured into various subdomains of clustered macromolecules. Lipid rafts are nanoscale subdomains, enriched with cholesterol and sphingolipids, reside as floating entity mostly on the exoplasmic leaflet of the lipid bilayer. In terms of functionality, lipid rafts are unique among other membrane subdomains. Herein, advances on the roles of lipid rafts in cellular physiology and homeostasis are discussed, precisely, on how rafts dynamically harbor signaling proteins, including GPCRs, catalytic receptors, and ionotropic receptors within it and orchestrate multiple signaling pathways. In the developmental proceedings signaling are designed for patterning of overall organism and they differ from the somatic cell physiology and signaling of fully developed organisms. Some of the developmental signals are characteristic in maintenance of stemness and activated during several types of tumor development and cancer progression. The harmony between extracellular signaling and lineage specific transcriptional programs are extremely important for embryonic development. The roles of plasma membrane lipid rafts mediated signaling in lineage specificity, early embryonic development, stem cell maintenance are emerging. In view of this, we have highlighted and analyzed the roles of lipid rafts in receptor organization, cell signaling, and gene expression during embryonic development; from pre-implantation through the post-implantation phase, in stem cell and cancer biology.
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